What Nick Offerman Can Teach You About Manhood in 5 Minutes

Also: Scotch.

Parks and Recreation operates in extremes — extreme hilarity, extreme stupidity, extreme emotions — each one more lovable than the next on television's best show about human kindness. But no extreme is more consistently enjoyable than Ron Swanson's, and that's at least partly because Nick Offerman, to some degree, plays himself. (And this video from Bloomberg Businessweek proves it.) Here are a few of the best lines:

"Mother's milk," he says as he sips Lagavulin.

"We've become so incredibly soft. I have friends who don't know the difference between a standard screwdriver and a phillips-head."

"You're gonna get dirt all over your hands if you work in the garden."

"So far I'm still on my feet, and as long as I am, I intend to eat a huge juicy steak."

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